Tank-vehicle



C. V. LUCIUSf TANK VEHICLE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.I9. 1-918.

1 ,3 1 1 98 1 Patented Aug. 5,1919.

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akto'mnua CHRIS TIAN V. LUCIUS, 0F MASSILLON, OHIO.

TANK-VEHICLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 5, 1919.

Application filed December 19, 1918. Serial No. 267,449.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, @nnrsrmn V. LUCIUS, acitizen of the United States, residin at Massillon, in the county ofStark and S tate ofOhio, have invented certain new and use fulImprovements in Tank-Vehicles, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in tank-vehicles, the primaryobjectof the invention being to provide a generally improved oilcarrying and transporting tankvehicle, which will be exceedingly simplein construction, cheap of manufacture, and efticient in use. A furtherob ect is the provision of 1mproved tanks or containers for suchvehicles,

together with improved means of independ ently mounting and removablysupporting the same upon the vehicle chassis.

A'still further object is the provision of an improved chassis for avehicle of this class, together with improved tank supporting sidemembers or running boards, adapted to sup port a series of portable oilcontainers or delivery vessels,

A still further object is the provision of improved tank suppontinghangers or tie members and improved means for detachably mounting andsecuring the same,

A still further object is the provision'of improved means ofindependently supporting a plurality of interchangeable'tanks orcontainers in properly spaced relation to each other, so as to providean air circulating passage between such tanks or containers, as well aslessening the liability of one tank to injure another in case ofaccident, or the oil or liquid contents of one compartment becomingmixed or mingled with that of another, as well as providing meanswhereby any tank may be readily removed and replaced by another withoutin any way disturbing the mounting of an adjacent tank.

With the above mentioned and other ends in view, the invention consistsin the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts,hereinafter described, illustrated in one of its embodiments in theaccompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appendedclaims.

Referring to the drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure1, is a side elevation of a tank-vehicle constructed in accordance withthis invention.

Fig. 2, a rear elevation of the same.

Fig. 3, a cross sectional view taken on line 3-3, of Fig. 1, the tanksupporting side members or running boards being provided with ,ortablecontainers or delivery vessels, toget 101' with auxiliary supportingrails or guards.

Fig. 4, an enlarged fragmentary top plan View of one of the containersupporting boards, and illustrating in particular a suitable method ofdctachably connecting theconnected ends of the tank supporting hanger ortie members to the tank supporting running boards.

Similar numerals of reference designate like parts throughout all thefigures of the drawings.

The running gear of the improved tankvehicle may be of any suitable andconvenient form, and the improved vehicle is preferablyof theself-propelled type, as shown.

The improved chassis comprises a pair of longitudinally extendingchannel bars 1, to which the springs 2, may be attached, and thelongitudinal bars 1 are adapted to support a plurality of cross bars 3,projecting beyond the channel bars 1, the projecting ends of the crossbars 3, being adapted to support tank supporting side members or runningboards 4. The cross bars 3, are adapted to act as spacing members forthe improved tanks 5, interposed between the cross bars 3, and therunning boards or supporting members 4, as hereinafter described. Itwill be seen that the cross bars 3, form intervening air circulatingpassages 5, between the tanks.

As a means of independently mounting and supporting the improved tanks5, the supporting members or running boards 4 are provided with aplurality of tank supporting hangers 6, said hanger members or tiestraps extending downwardly and conforming to the curved bottom portionof the 7, detachably secured to a longitudinally exrtending dischargepipe 8, by means of a conveniently receiving and storing variousarticles needed in connection with a tankvehicle of this class. V

It will be observed that tanks or containers,5,a re of an improved formand that the bottoms are of concavo-convex shape for convenient andcomplete drainage into the outlet pipes 7, and it will also be observedthat the two front tanks or containers 5, are interchangeable with eachother, and if desired the spaced end walls of the tanks or containersmay be provided with standards lO,-adap-ted to carry sign or advertisingboards 10. Should it be desired to remove one of the tanks or containers5, the union nut 7 may be detached from the discharge pipe 8, and thetank may be readily re-' moved.

The running boards 4, are admirably adapted for receiving and carrying-aplurality of portable containers or vessels 11, as shown in Fig. 3, ofthe drawings, and, if de-' sired, the running boards 4, may be providedwith container supporting rails or guards 12, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4,of the drawings.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the'operation and advantages of my invention willbe readily understood. v

Having thus described one of the embodimen-ts of my invention, what Iclaim, and

desire to. secure by Letters Patent, is, 1. A tank-vehicle, comprising achassisv including laterally projectln'g cross bars carryingtank-supporting side members, hangers carried by the latter, and tanksmounted on said hangers and seated between and spaced by said crossbars.

2. A tank-vehicle, comprising a chassis thereof, tank supporting sidemembers on including laterally projecting cross bars car- I theprojecting ends of said cross members, hangers carried by said sidemembers, and

independent tanks carried by said hangers and spaced between and 'bysaid-cross members.

4. A tank-vehicle, comprising longitudinal chassis members and crossmembers car ried thereby andj'projecting on opposite sides thereof, tanksupporting side members on the projecting ends of said cross members,hanger straps carried by said side members and depending between saidcross members, and independent transversely extending tanks carried bysaid hanger straps and'interposed between and spaced by said crossmembers.

signature.

CHRISTIAN v LUoIUs.

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